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I loaded a bucket of 32 S&W Long revolver ammo last night. It was 2 am and I wanted to load some 32ACP as well.

All I had to do was make a few changes to the die settings on the Dillon and I cranked out some 32ACP.
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The powder charge for both loads was the same, so no change was needed to the powder thrower.

Oops. The shorter 32ACP case did not move the powder bar far enough to drop any powder. Every case is empty!

If it was 9mm, I might just toss them, but I don't have all that many 32ACP cases, so I will have to pull the bullets and hopefully save both case and bullet to be loaded again.

Next challenge is how to do that, easily and quickly.

A revolver should do it.
 
I feel your pain, I once loaded up about 50 something 357 before realizing my powder dispenser wasn't throwing any powder.
Did manage to pull all the bullets and reuse. Lesson learnt.
 
Pardon my morning-pre-caffeine brain if I am not understanding your post properly.
If you have a bunch of brass with bullets and primers, and no powder, why not just play whack-a-mole with a kinetic hammer (or whatever the correct term is). Keeps the brass intact and prevents the bullet from getting damaged.
Then reuse it all, but with the proper height on the powder die?
 
fleabaggins said:
Pardon my morning-pre-caffeine brain if I am not understanding your post properly.
If you have a bunch of brass with bullets and primers, and no powder, why not just play whack-a-mole with a kinetic hammer (or whatever the correct term is). Keeps the brass intact and prevents the bullet from getting damaged.
Then reuse it all, but with the proper height on the powder die?
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He probably doesn't want to spend the time to do that.

Ganderite, you mention a revolver should do it. What do you mean by this? Are you going to fire the primed cases in a revolver to recover your components?
 
Suther said:
Ganderite, you mention a revolver should do it. What do you mean by this? Are you going to fire the primed cases in a revolver to recover your components?
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I'm trying myself to picture what he is up to.

I suppose the ideal solution would be a revolver with chambers that supported the brass, but no barrel, or a grossly oversized barrel, so that the bullets just fell through.

A junky pocket .32 auto with the bore reamed to 3/8" would accomplish something similar, but he would have to rack the slide by hand.
 
If the revolver is 12-6 enough then just maybe the primers will push the bullets clear of the muzzle. They might even make PPC power factor and go through a paper target But I want to see video!
 
A gentleman (using the term loosely) at my club claimed to make a chamber adapter for one of his big bore guns to shoot out misloads. I can't remember the specifics. Maybe a 45-70 revolver? He offered to bring it in for me when I told him I had inherited some of my dad's reloads which were too long, and of unknown recipe.

He claimed you could fire the round, and if there was no powder, just tilt the barrel down after each shot to make sure the slug fell out of the barrel.
 
Duh! I have a 30 cal bullet puller mounted on my press, 24/7 It did not clcik in my mind that the 32 ACP is a 30 cal bullet and I could have just pulled the bullets.

So I fired them in a 32 revolver and tapped the bullet out of the forcing cone. It went quickly, but I had to reprime the brass and tumble it clean again.

Note: The 32ACP is a semi-rimmed case, so will load ok in a revolver. However, it is a much higher pressure round than a regular 32 revolver round, so should not be shot in a revolver - especially the old break-action guns.
 
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I'm surprised someone as experienced as you do not visually check the powder charge in every case. Things as simple as forgetting to connect the hopper return link could cause no powder charge.

I have a desk lamp pointed at the station #3 on my dillion and check every case religiously.
 
diegocn said:
I'm surprised someone as experienced as you do not visually check the powder charge in every case. Things as simple as forgetting to connect the hopper return link could cause no powder charge.

I have a desk lamp pointed at the station #3 on my dillion and check every case religiously.
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Ganderite had a good excuse. Not many people are at their best at 2AM, I know I'm not:p
 
I loaded 50 .30-06 then I realized I had one round with no powder.

I had to weight all 50 to be sure I had found the correct powderless round before pulling the bullet and loading it correctly..
 
dead meat said:
It went as planned then to recover the bullets. Just the cost of the primers.
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It took about 45 minutes to take about 150 rounds apart. Cost me some time and the primers.

A 75 gr bullet would not respond well to a kinetic hammer. And I tried a pliers and found the little bullet was really tight in the case, so shooting them out appeared to be the best option.

The collet might have worked, although there was not much of a straight shank showing to grab.
 
I have an ammo can with somewhere around 1500 rounds of 45 acp that I loaded a bit too short to feed reliably in any of my guns. I cut a dowel to the right length that the bullet will touch it before coming out of the case, and whenever I get really bored I head downstairs to lengthen a box or 2 of them, then re-seat and re-crimp in my Dillon. I got a batch of slightly different shaped Berry's bullets, and loaded them up without really checking things out. Won't do that again.
Kristian
 
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